PowerShell Job Trends in Edinburgh

Windows PowerShell
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PowerShell skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 56 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 -3
Permanent jobs citing PowerShell 56 37 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.73% 2.97% 2.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.72% 7.72% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 25
10th Percentile £72,000 £42,500 £46,335
25th Percentile £75,000 £47,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -15.84% +26.89%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £82,548
90th Percentile - £85,000 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £51,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.20% -14.58% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PowerShell falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 284 479 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 34.13% 38.47% 44.34%
Number of salaries quoted 121 238 369
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £73,063 £76,385
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £88,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PowerShell relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PowerShell job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PowerShell

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing PowerShell in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Salary histogram for PowerShell in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.57%) CICS
3 2 (3.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (87.50%) Azure
2 27 (48.21%) Entra ID
2 27 (48.21%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (17.86%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (14.29%) Boomi
5 8 (14.29%) GitHub
5 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (14.29%) Mimecast
5 8 (14.29%) SaaS
6 7 (12.50%) dbt
6 7 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 4 (7.14%) Azure App Service
7 4 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.36%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.57%) AWS
9 2 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) DNS
2 4 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (3.57%) BGP
3 2 (3.57%) LAN
3 2 (3.57%) MPLS
3 2 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (3.57%) WAN
3 2 (3.57%) Wireless
4 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.57%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 50 (89.29%) Finance
2 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Senior
2 8 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) Network Engineer
5 1 (1.79%) Server Specialist
5 1 (1.79%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) REST
1 8 (14.29%) SAML
1 8 (14.29%) SOAP
1 8 (14.29%) Web Services
2 3 (5.36%) GraphQL
2 3 (5.36%) OAuth
2 3 (5.36%) OpenAPI
2 3 (5.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (67.86%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.07%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.07%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) VMS
3 1 (1.79%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (80.36%) Asset Management
1 45 (80.36%) Coaching
2 42 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 41 (73.21%) Agile
4 34 (60.71%) DevOps
5 30 (53.57%) AI
6 26 (46.43%) Analytics
6 26 (46.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (46.43%) FinOps
6 26 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (46.43%) ITIL
6 26 (46.43%) Machine Learning
6 26 (46.43%) Technology Roadmap
7 18 (32.14%) Information Security
8 15 (26.79%) CI/CD
9 11 (19.64%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
10 10 (17.86%) Cost Management
10 10 (17.86%) Log Analytics
10 10 (17.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (76.79%) Python
2 23 (41.07%) Bash
3 11 (19.64%) SQL
4 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.14%) Bicep
6 3 (5.36%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) CISSP
1 4 (7.14%) CREST Certified
1 4 (7.14%) SANS
2 1 (1.79%) CEH
2 1 (1.79%) GIAC
2 1 (1.79%) GREM
2 1 (1.79%) OSCP
2 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 8 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (32.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (16.07%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.14%) Docker
5 2 (3.57%) RACF
Systems Management
1 34 (60.71%) Terraform
2 18 (32.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (14.29%) SCCM
3 8 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (7.14%) Ansible
4 4 (7.14%) Grafana
4 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (1.79%) QRadar
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 8 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 8 (14.29%) Workday
4 5 (8.93%) Splunk
5 2 (3.57%) Broadcom
5 2 (3.57%) F5
5 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.57%) IBM
5 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.79%) CrowdStrike